Hesitancy regarding Covid-19 vaccines permeates key sections of mainland China’s population, constituting an increasing challenge for Beijing as it attempts to convince more to get the shot amid the...
SINGAPORE — Japan’s new national security policy has labeled China as an “unprecedented strategic challenge,” replacing a direction that emphasized possible cooperation, a Bloomberg source said. The new strategy...
SINGAPORE — An Australian regulator lambasted Apple and Microsoft for not doing enough to halt child exploitation content on their platforms. ...
SINGAPORE — Indonesia is struggling to expand its declining military despite a spending splurge to counter threats arising from a long-standing territorial dispute with its largest trading partner, China....
SINGAPORE — In November 2022, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to enhance weapons exports and secure trailblazing defense technologies as he strives to encourage the country’s weapons industry...
SINGAPORE — The United States plans to include Yangtze Memory Technologies and more than 30 other Chinese companies on a trade blacklist that would deter them from purchasing some...
SINGAPORE — North Korea has tested a “high-thrust solid-fuel motor,” state media claimed on December 16, as the communist hermit state aims to manufacture a new strategic weapon and...
Chinese President Xi Jinping, his ruling Politburo, and senior government officials convened with top officials at a major annual economic policy conference to chart out a recovery plan for...
SINGAPORE — The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not expected to formally authorize Sri Lanka’s planned US$2.9 billion bailout before year end. Sri Lanka inked...
Bob Chan, from Hong Kong, was protesting Xi Jinping outside China's consulate in the U.K. when he was apparently attacked by Chinese diplomats. ...
The student reported the activist's actions to Chinese authorities to investigate her family in China, and threatened to cut off her hands. ...
SINGAPORE — Japan is planning to expand an Okinawa-based ground force unit to protect remote southwestern islands and prepare for a Taiwan-linked military emergency in light of China’s rising...
SINGAPORE — The communist regime in China has established more than 100 “police stations” globally for surveillance of its citizens based overseas. Occasionally, these police stations rely on bilateral...
SINGAPORE — Iran has been witnessing escalating nationwide demonstrations protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died on September 16 in questionable straits after her detainment...
SINGAPORE — In the wake of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022, observers have noted that it has become Beijing’s “new normal” to punish...
SINGAPORE — Australia inked a security deal on Tuesday with the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in a bid to counter communist China’s military expansion in the strategically vital...
An Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) branch claimed responsibility for an attack on Monday at a Kabul hotel popular among Chinese businessmen and diplomats. This attack was...
Former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan has been arrested in Australia, where he is now a naturalized citizen, after being accused of breaching U.S. arms-control law by training...
SINGAPORE — Last Friday, Indian and Chinese troops sustained mild injuries in a clash in the Tawang area of India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, the Indian army announced on Monday,...
China dispatched an unprecedented 18 nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan’s air-defense zone, according to Taipei on Tuesday, just days after Beijing forbade more Taiwanese imports in the latest episode of...
